William Taswell
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William Taswell (1 May 1652 - June 1731) was a parish priest who as a Westminster schoolboy witnessed the Great Fire of London in 1666.[1][2] He wrote an autobiography giving an account of the fire and other events he witnessed such as the Great Plague of London, which was posthumously published in 1852. He also published two controversial pamphlets criticising Quakerism.[3][4]